Walker wipes out DNR magazine, keeps killing agency mission

[Updated from 2/9] Here's how deeply the right-wing, anti-science, GOP Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will reach into state service to kill off a long-standing source of easily-accessible environmental information, and force two workers from their jobs, in a bit of post-Act 10, ant-state worker 'achievement.'

Though its costs were completely covered by subscribers, and the Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine had a long and useful run, climate change denier Scott Walker and his "chamber of commerce mentality" DNR mission-saboteur Secretary Cathy Stepp are using the state budget to wipe out the credible, high-quality publication that published items like this no longer wanted by official Wisconsin:

As spring creeps in earlier and earlier, some blooms may be in flower before the insects that pollinate them have hatched and matured.
© Callen Harty

February 2011

Managing our future: Getting ahead of a changing climate

The first of a series of reports to be issued every four to five years suggests how Wisconsin can adapt to stave off consequences from an altered world.

Or...

February 2017

This article from the current issue about Native tribes and their sustainability work for youth

The efficiently-run, low-cost magazine ($8.97 annually for six issues, and a lower rate if two-or-three year subscription were purchased), had been published under several names since 1919.

Why after nearly a century does the Governor want to kill it, and its positive public purpose?

Even the DNR itself said on an agency webpage that "magazine stories encourage readers to participate in outdoor activities, appreciate a healthy outdoor environment and contribute to its welfare," but Walker has decided the DNR should not be telling these stories.

Here is the larger context for the move.

Unless media statewide rise up against this ham-handed termination of public information, and if the Legislature says otherwise.